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Chanel Miller’s New Short Film Is a Moving Tribute to the Strength of Survivors Everywhere


Until a few weeks ago, Chanel Miller was known to the public as Emily Doe. A sexual assault survivor—whose powerful impact statement addressed to her assailant, Brock Turner, went viral—Miller chose not to speak out under her own name but instead to let her words stand on their own. That decision, Miller told the New York Times, “let me have a life in which this never happened,” giving her time to still be Chanel and not “the nameless, faceless, half-naked body from this case.”

But earlier this month, the former 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year (then still known as Emily Doe) came forward and announced the release of her memoir, Know My Name. The memoir focuses not just on the trial or its immediate aftermath, but on her life before and since as she’s worked to figure out where she goes from here. With Know My Name now available in bookstores nationwide, Miller has released a short companion film about her experience as a survivor that she wrote and codirected.

Chanel Miller finishing up an illustration in 2017

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“I Am With You” is a five-minute film in four acts, with animation created from Miller’s original illustrations. It’s both an exploration of Miller’s journey to reclaim her voice and a moving love letter to the strength and power of survivors everywhere. “While writing Know My Name, I was constantly drawing as a way of letting my mind breathe, reminding myself that life is playful and imaginative. We all deserve a chance to define ourselves, shape our identities, and tell our stories,” Miller said in a statement. “The film crew that worked on this piece was almost all women. Feeling their support and creating together was immensely healing. We should all be creating space for survivors to speak their truths and express themselves freely. When society nourishes instead of blames, books are written, art is made, and the world is a little better for it.”

You can watch Miller’s beautiful tribute to her healing process in its entirety, below.

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People Are Freaking Out Over Elle Fanning’s Cannes Film Festival 2019 Fashion


To say Elle Fanning has been turning it out on the red carpet at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival would be a serious understatement. As a member of the festival’s jury (the youngest ever!), she’s expected to show up for all the major premieres—and oh, has she shown up.

Night after night, event after event, Fanning and longtime stylist Samantha McMillen have been putting together some epic looks, and people can’t handle it. One particular Dior ensemble—a custom couture creation, inspired by an iconic 1947 photograph—has gotten everyone talking. The actress wore a full skirt, a ruffled blouse, and a wide-brim hat to the premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and, appropriately, and looked like an Old Hollywood movie star. She even got the poses down on the red carpet.

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The outfit is actually a callback to a famous black-and-white photo of a model wearing one of Christian Dior’s haute couture creations in the 1940s. According to the brand, it took 450 hours to make Fanning’s modern recreation of the look.

And every last second was worth it, judging from the extremely positive reaction on social media. “ELLE FANNING….. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP AT THIS LEVEL,” one user wrote. Another had a brilliant request for the Hollywood powers that be: “Y’all better cast elle fanning (21) and rosamund pike (40) as a daughter-mother grifter duo in some noirish movie asap!”

Fanning’s fashion commitment to her lewks appears to be endless: Earlier this week, it was reported that she actually fainted at a cocktail party because the corset on her Prada dress was too tight. But not to worry, she posted on Instagram afterward about it, reassuring fans that she was okay.

“Oops, had a fainting spell tonight in my 1950’s Prada prom dress but it’s all good!! #dresstootight #timeofthemonth,” she captioned a selfie.

In light of the Dior look, To All the Boys I Loved Before author Jenny Han chimed in on the Twitter conversation, sharing her thoughts on what makes Fanning’s approach to fashion so delightful to watch. “What I love about Elle Fanning’s red carpet style is she is always very much herself,” she wrote. “There’s always a little bit of whimsy, a little tartness, and it’s always fun. She’s evolved just beautifully while staying completely true to herself! What I’m saying is I stan.”

Well said, Jenny.





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The Best Looks From the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet


Earlier this month, celebrities were able to live out their campiest fashion dreams on the red carpet at the Met Gala. They’ve dialed it back down (a bit) now, but at the Cannes Film Festival, we’re still seeing some of that heightened extravagance from our favorite celebrities: Eva Longoria with an extra-extra-high slit, Elle Fanning with a dramatic silky cape, Bella Hadid with tiers of tulle. This year, we also had some pretty exciting first-timers, like Priyanka Chopra and Selena Gomez, to look forward to—and they brought the style and sparkle (like, decked-in-Chopard-jewels sparkle) to the carpet.

Ahead, catch up on some of the absolute best fashion moments coming out of the French Riviera at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.



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The Poet Warsan Shire Wrote the Short Film 'Brave Girl Rising' for International Women's Day


What the film does well is highlight both the experiences that girls all over the world have in common and the terrible, particular difficulties and threats that a girl like Nasro faces. How much of girlhood is a shared experience?

Being a girl is always difficult. It’s a strange rite of passage, and being a woman in this world is difficult. But there’s a massive difference between what it feels like to be a woman in [America or England] and where Nasaro is. And a girl’s [experience] will be different, too, based on her race, her socioeconomic background, how much education she has. Does she have people in her life to support her? What part of the world is she in? What resources does she have access to? That will decide what her life will be like.

In the New Yorker, Alexis Okeowo wrote that your work “evokes longing for home,” which I think is true. When you feel that ache for home, what do you do?

I feel that every day of my life. For me, home is Somalia. I’m living in L.A. now, but London was home for a really long time, and now I’m living in America under Trump. So it’s double. I miss London, but I miss home home, which is Africa. It’s really important for me to listen to old Somali music and to speak in my mother tongue. It gives me a lot of pride. I like looking at old photographs of Somalia. I love to eat Somali food. I love to put on Somali incense. It’s all the time reminding myself a little bit of where I’m from, and the richness of it. Because it’s very easy to not do that and then you forget—how to cook, how to speak the same language, the comedy, the music.

I don’t want to grow older in different parts of the world and forget all the things that bring me a lot of joy, so I spend a lot of time on YouTube looking for Somali videos. And whenever I want to connect with London, I hope for rain. It’s rainy today in L.A., and it always makes me feel comforted. I just have to stay connected so I don’t forget where I’m from.

It can feel like time travel a bit, to surround yourself with those memories of home.

Yes, definitely. That’s a big help for writing as well. If I want to write about my teenage years, I’ll go back and listen to all the music I listened to and look at photographs of myself back in the day, and I’ll even ask my mom to send me old clothes from London. It’s like a time machine.

International Women’s Day can feel a little two-dimensional, I think. Because so much of it takes “place” online. I’m sure people will see the film and read articles about it. But then what? Do you have advice for people who want to do something with the pain or emotion that they feel?

I’m interested in the ways in which human beings are able to practice empathy, so my recommendation would be to read books written by different women from different backgrounds you don’t know anything about, watch films made by women all over the world, not just by women who look like you.

And try to practice empathy. Think about how massive the world is and how small your life is in comparison to that. Think about what it means to be a woman. Think about how you want to bring awareness to the suffering of other people. Think about women from different parts of the world, trans women, poor women, black women, women in prisons, women in shelters, women all over the world, women and girls in refugee camps. The world is so massive, but we forget that all the time.



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Pixar's New Short Film Purl Takes on Toxic Bro Culture at Work


Pixar movies have long been as popular with adults as they are with the children they’re created for. Who didn’t bawl their eyes out during Inside Out or Up, regardless of how old you are? But the first offering from Pixar‘s new SparkShorts program, Purl, was made specifically with us adults in mind. The animated short is a searing takedown of toxic bro culture in the workplace.

The film centers on Purl, a talking ball of pink yarn, who is the newest hire at the aptly-named B.R.O Capital. We follow Purl through her first day at work, and watch as she navigates a sea of white men clad in suits. These dudes make dirty jokes, love happy hour, and act more like they’re pledging a frat than conducting a business meeting. After she’s consistently ignored at the water cooler, talked over, and shut out of drinks with her coworkers, Purl decides to conform to her office’s culture to fit in. She changes her appearance, parties with the boys, and tells borderline misogynistic jokes.

While Purl’s wise-cracking, one-of-the-boys persona makes her a hit at the office, it doesn’t take long until she’s confronted by the fact that she’s only further perpetuating their harmful behavior. When a new hire—another ball of yarn—shows up on the floor, Purl’s first instinct is to ignore her and stick with the boys. But she soon realizes that she must stand in solidarity with the new yarn ball, in order to make her transition to B.R.O Capital easier than Purl’s.

In a flash forward, we see the office has become a much more inclusive place thanks to Purl. There are now just as many yarn balls as men in suits, and they work in perfect harmony. The ending can feel like an oversimplification of how to combat men behaving badly in the workplace—if the 2017 criticism of Pixar’s own “boys-club” work culture is any indication, this is extremely difficult terrain to overcome—but the film is still a powerful example of what it feels like to be an outlier at work. Whether you’re a woman, trans, a person of color, or a ball of yarn, Purl is an extremely relatable symbol for the need for diversity in the workplace.

Kristen Lester, the first-time filmmaker of Purl, wrote the film for this very reason. “A few times during my career in animation, I would be in situations similar to those in the short and I would feel very alone,” she tells Glamour. “I hoped that by making the short people would watch and know that they are not alone and that being accepted for who you are is possible.”

Many women have already taken to Twitter to share how much the film resonated with them. “I feel so seen by this Pixar “Purl” short about diversity! I even have girly desk decorations too, and it took me years to feel comfortable putting them out. Purl could be any woman in tech, we all know that feeling of trying to fit in with the boys,” one wrote. Another tweeted, “#PURL is all of us girls trying to fit in a man’s world. Pixar has done a lot but nothing hits me as close as this short.”

You can watch the film in its entirety, here.

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Samantha Leach is an assistant culture editor at Glamour. Follow her on Twitter @_sleach.





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Long-Lost Twins Carla Bruni and Bella Hadid Finally Met at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival


Conspiracy theorists, take note: All those rumors that Bella Hadid and Carla Bruni are actually the same person have officially been debunked—and all it took was a selfie.

Online, the two supermodels have long been billed as doppelgängers. Their runway photos have been put side-by-side to show their remarkable similarities. For instance: Here’s an image of Bruni at a a Lacroix Haute Couture show in 1996, and one of Hadid at the most recent Fendi show in February.

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Despite this Internet-favorite fan theory, we had never seen Hadid and Bruni photographed together. That all changed at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where their fateful meeting took place, all thanks to Naomi Campbell.

This meeting-of-the-models happened at Campbell’s annual Fashion For Relief gala on Sunday night, which raised funds for Save the Children and Time’s Up, according to Vanity Fair. The event has a fashion show component, which featured Hadid, Winnie Harlow, and Campbell herself, among other supermodels, per The Sun.

At some point of the evening, Hadid was able to meet her supermodel lookalike. Naturally, they documented it with a selfie.

Where one conspiracy theory ends, another begins: They may have shut down the rumor that they’re secretly the same person by posing for a photo together, but Bruni decided to (jokingly) start another one herself. “Do I have a hidden daughter? @bellahadid,” the Italian-French model captioned the selfie. The resemblance is uncanny.

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